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January 30, 2017, SAN ANTONIO – GenCure, a subsidiary of San Antonio-based biotech BioBridge Global, has entered a development and manufacturing agreement with stem cell technology developer StemBioSys Inc. of San Antonio. [Read more…]
CellPlan Limited (‘CellPlan’), which has developed the world’s first stem cell healthcare insurance plan and medical concierge service, has cemented its agreement with Biovault Technical Ltd (‘Biovault’), the UK’s largest private human tissue storage facility via a definitive agreement. CellPlan is part of London-listedWideCells Group plc, the healthcare services company focused on providing end-to-end stem cell services. [Read more…]
A crucial benchmark to track for the cord blood market is the number and type of cord blood related patents that have been issued.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has a patent analysis tool that offers a “Full Text and Image Database Search.” The database includes information about all American patents, from the first patent issued in 1790 to the most recent issue week.1 The text of patents issued from January 1976 to the present is fully searchable, including bibliographic data, such as the inventor’s name, the patent’s title, and the assignee’s name; the abstract; the full description of the invention; and the claims.2 [Read more…]
New York, USA; and Melbourne, Australia; December 6, 2016: Mesoblast Limited (ASX:MSB; Nasdaq:MESO) today announced that MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) in Texas and the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) will fund a clinical trial combining Mesoblast’s two synergistic proprietary technologies, Mesenchymal Precursor Cell (MPC)-based expansion and ex-vivo fucosylation of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) for cord blood transpl
antation in cancer patients. The trial will provide clinical data on whether the combination of these two technologies synergistically facilitates more rapid cord blood HSC engraftment for bone marrow transplant patients than can be achieved by either technology alone.
The number of allogeneic bone marrow transplants performed globally each year could be substantially increased beyond the current 30,000, for cancer and non-cancer indications, if safe and effective alternative sources of allogeneic HSCs are available, such as cord blood, for patients who cannot find a matched donor. Unfortunately, cord blood transplants are associated with prolonged engraftment times due to insufficient numbers and inadequate homing capacity of cord blood HSCs, adversely impacting their clinical outcomes. [Read more…]
Jerusalem, Israel, Tuesday, December 6, 2016 — Gamida Cell, a leader in cellular and immune therapies for the treatment of cancer and orphan genetic diseases, today announced results from its Phase 1/2 study of NiCord® for Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). The data were presented during a poster session at the 58th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting & Exposition, December 3-5, 2016 in San Diego, CA. [Read more…]
